Confessor, founder of the Barnabites, born Cremona, Italy, 1502; died there, 1539. He studied theology and medicine and received Holy Orders, 1528. He worked among the poor at Milan, and established the Confraternity of Eternal Wisdom and the congregation of secular clergy to relieve the conditions in northern Italy. Canonized, 1897. Feast, Roman Calendar, July 5,.
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